Word: aha
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...studios than to the decorous literary < houses of yore. Most large publishers are now part of corporate conglomerates, which are looking for blockbuster subjects to attract new audiences. "What you've got," says a high-level publisher, "is a lot of corporate executives who don't know publishing saying, 'Aha! There's a huge market out there that has never been tapped. Let's go after it.' " In a controversial article in the New Republic, writer Jacob Weisberg attacked this frenzied pursuit of blockbusters, charging that high-powered book editors are "not judged by the quality of the books they...
...married?" "No," the patient replies. "Any children?" She shakes her head. "Does your nose ever turn red?" She furrows her eyebrows thoughtfully and answers, "Yes, sometimes." "Aha," says Stubs. "Does it turn red when it's cold outside?" The girl thinks for a moment, then says, decisively...
...People know that when I was at Rockefeller, we had a very small staff of seven," Meyer says. "So I come here and they say `AHA! It's going from 120 down to seven.' That is not so at all. People are constantly putting words in my mouth about external management...
...This was really the great 'aha' moment," MacCready says. Stopping along the way in Aspen to visit Murray Gell-Mann, who was vacationing there, MacCready announced that he had figured out how to win the Kremer prize. "He was that definite," Gell-Mann recalls...